DanNeely Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 I'm having intermittant boot freezes The 4 diagnostic led's light up then 3 turn off. My VGA bios displays it's splashscreen, and I get the successful post beep, then the bios splash shows and my system freezes. About half the time I'd hear one of the fans spinning up and down in speed. Dropping down to stock cpu voltages didn't help. Suspecting that the fan noise might be indicating a power problem I disconnected my optical drive and the one nonraid drive I had in the system (only one directly plugged into the mobo). Doing that allowed me to boot successfully. I was able to add the DVDRW drive back, and retain consistant booting, but bringing the last HD back online restarted the erratic boot problem. My current PSU is an antec truepower2 550W, do I need to upgrade it to something larger and more powerful? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
macaddict Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Wow, I would have thought the TP 550 would be more than enough! Glad I went with the 650 recently :- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanNeely Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Yeah, it caught me by surprise. With my old abit board I was fine with 7HDs, 2 optical drives (vs 5/1), and one more 80mm fan than in my current config. My first thought is to go with a silverstone 750W modular PSU. Quad SLI connections and 12V8pin moboconnections should help futureproof me for a few years, and I want the anti spagetti factory explosion capability from being able to remove the extra wiring from my case entirely. The current timing stinks though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
macaddict Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Do you have stability issues under a full load as well? I'd be curious if MBM shows the voltage dropping lots while under a load too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanNeely Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 speed fan's reporting 3.26, 5.00, 11.86v at full load, cpucore at 1.675v, but not OCed. All within spec but lower than with my old abit board. Also the system seems louder, which probably means the PSU fan has kicked up a notch. My failed boots knocked a drive out of the raid, so I'm not doing any OC limit testing until the rebuild finishes. The preliminary OC results look like I'll be able to get at least 2975 vs 2900 for my old board, and with those numbers being handicapped by a faltering PSU I'm hoping to be able to get the 3gig point. I'm probably going to leave it at 2900 until I get get the new PSU towards the end of the month unless I find any stability problems at that level. I could squeeze the PSU into this months budget, but I want to grab $30 or $40 of misc hardware from case-mods.com at the same time as I get the PSU. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erico Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Actually it is a surprise that your system will run well at all considering the DRAM mix you show in your signature. Are you actually running 3GB Ram with mixed sizes and manufacturers and expecting it to be stable? You are kidding..right? Try 2 GB with sticks same brand and size...Betcha it runs better. Good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasr Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Do yourself a favor and make things simple. Recommended to use exactly the same memories simultaneously Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipse Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 speed fan's reporting 3.26' date=' 5.00, 11.86v at full load, cpucore at 1.675v, but not OCed...QUOTE']Is this a typo or are you really running such a high vcore? Gipse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanNeely Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Not sure if it's related to my PSU issue or not, but my NB fan appears to be emmitting an intermittant and very high pitched (15khz???) whine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Hello, Have you seen the above posts that mention about you VCORE voltage being to high and mixing memory? Both are things that you should not ignore. Use a match pair of memory. And set your vcore voltage to AUTO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanNeely Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 At the moment, the older crucial sticks (2x512) aren't installed. The vcore's at the level that I needed on my old board to be stable @ 2.9gig. WIth the 6th HD installed, I had booting problems even at stock voltage. With it out, I'm stable at my old OC even if my voltages are a little weak. I'm planning on holding off until the start of my next CC billing cycle before ordering the PSU unless I start seeing additional problems first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanNeely Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 I'm not sure if this is related or not, and I probably won't be able to run a synthetic benchmark to get hard performance numbers until tomorrow afternoon, but since the mobo upgrade, despite my CPU being identically clocked, my einstien@home workunits are taking ~2x as long to complete as before. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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